I am currently nearing completion of my second year on this course and have found it both stimulating and rewarding from day one. The range of modules studied adds a great deal of variety to the course. In year 1 you study modules based a wide range of topics including Biochemistry, Microbiology, ... Read review
I am currently nearing completion of my second year on this course and have found it both stimulating and rewarding from day one. The range of modules studied adds a great deal of variety to the course. In year 1 you study modules based a wide range of topics including Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Ecology and loads more. You will also study statistics and general skills related to higher education such as writing essays and the use of IT. ... ...1 hour per week) and practical sessions (about 3 x 2 hours per week). In addition to this you will have regular tutorials in groups of about 5 students and some IT and statistics workshops.
I found the workload quite manageable. It isn't all that easy, but provided you manage your time pretty well, you should be able to get all your uni work done and still have plently of time to try out the nightlife in Plymouth or visit your mates ... more
I am currently nearing completion of my second year on this course and have found it both stimulating and rewarding from day one. The range of modules studied adds a great deal of variety to the course. In year 1 you study modules based a wide range of topics including Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Ecology and loads more. You will also study statistics and general skills related to higher education such as writing essays and the use of IT. The course is taught mainly through lectures (about 11 x 1 hour per week) and practical sessions (about 3 x 2 hours per week). In addition to this you will have regular tutorials in groups of about 5 students and some IT and statistics workshops.
I found the workload quite manageable. It isn't all that easy, but provided you manage your time pretty well, you should be able to get all your uni work done and still have plently of time to try out the nightlife in Plymouth or visit your mates in other unis.
The facilities are pretty good; many of the labs were done up a couple of years ago and the lecture theatres aren't bad either. You will find the staff friendly and keen to help you whenever you need it.
Advantages: Excellent staff, good facilities, great laboratories, located in a gorgeous part of Wales Disadvantages: Hard to get to, lectures are quite scattered around campus
Having spent three years of my life studying at the Institute of BiologicalSciences at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, I feel fairly qualified to give me opinion on the deparment! And honestly, I've got only positive things to say about my experiences as an undergraduate student studying here.
Firstly, the building and facilities. To be entirely honest, the building has seen better days! It was obviously built in the sixties, and there are far more modern, attractive buildings on campus. However it has seen recent renovations (particularly in the laboratories) and also (similar to the way that student flats have a certain charm), the building has a certain well-loved-teddy-bear quality to it, for lack of a better description, which quickly grows on you! The laboratories really are extremely modern due to the recent ...
Advantages: Excellent lecturers and standards of research work Disadvantages: They work you hard!
The BiologicalSciences department at Oxford University boasts some great minds, and some excellent lecturers. It actually consists of four separate sections; the Zoology Department, which shares a building with Experimental Psychology, the Plant Sciences department (formerly the department of Forestry), the Genetics department, and the recently built Epidemiology building. The Zoology department really excels, offering particularly good Animal Behaviour and Evolution courses - lectures are given by many great speakers including Richard Dawkins and Mark Ridley. The late William Hamilton produced a lot of the most seminal papers on the evolution of sex and altruism here. The epidemiology department is also very good, and the new building is superb. All undergraduates are obliged to carry out a project investigating some aspect of biology ...
Advantages: Full colour, some questions have answers, summary at end of each unit are handy Disadvantages: Not all questions have answers
This book is the bible of AS Biology students. (Or at least that’s what its supposed to be!)
This book is designed for AS level Biology students studying with the OCR exam board. As with most textbooks though, I’d have thought that this book would cover the main points required in any AS Biology course. Just to be sure though you should definitely buy the book your teacher recommends. After all, the should know!
The AS course (and book) is divided into three parts, each one corresponding to a module, Biology Foundation, Transport and Human Health and Disease.
The book is assuming you have a double-science GCSE background.
So what’s in the books?
I’ll cover what is the first two units of each module. I’d be here all week if I listed what is in each ...
